"Hello ///M3///M5 it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?"

Did you get that in an email or something?

No, it was right under my User CP bar.

yeah i get that every once in a while these days

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rofl I've gotten one of those before. If you're not johnny on the spot every day with a post, it's like they summon you to do so. :rolleyes

I get that all the time.

I get a message that tells me to step up the referrals. :shifty

I get a message that tells me to step up the referrals. :shifty

I've never gotten that one. :shifty

Ive gotten this once or twice. Freaking lurkers. I need to get my post count back up. I was so close to overthrowing Geordie too :(

Speaking of odd messages...

I was reminded this morning that some recent revision of the forum software made entering a bitrh date mandatory. An automated "happy birthday from BF.c" email just showed up. :rofl

Of course, this isn't my actually b-day. But since the software demanded something, I fed it a significant date in history. :ponder


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Speaking of odd messages...

I was reminded this morning that some recent revision of the forum software made entering a bitrh date mandatory. An automated "happy birthday from BF.c" email just showed up. :rofl

Of course, this isn't my actually b-day. But since the software demanded something, I fed it a significant date in history. :ponder


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On this day in 1439, Kissing was banned in England.
On this day in 1775, John Adams graduated from Harvard.
On this day in 1935, the 1st automatic parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, OK.
On this day in 1951, the novel "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger was published.
On this day in 1956, the Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent.
On this day in 1962, NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m.
On this day in 1969, Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched.
On this day in 1988, Michael J Fox married Tracy Pollan.


But I am thinking that you are referring to this...
On this day in 1945, the 1st atomic bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

just a guess

On this day in 1945, the 1st atomic bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
:thumbup:

Is this annoying "reminder" only in the User CP? I never really go in there.


DW, my grandfather was working on that project. My mom was born in Alamogordo on Aug 3rd, 1945. To this day whenever she sees a bright light or a flash go off she blinks.

On this day in 1945, the 1st atomic bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Happy Whew!-They-Didn't-Ignite-The-Atmosphere Day!!

DW, my grandfather was working on that project. My mom was born in Alamogordo on Aug 3rd, 1945. To this day whenever she sees a bright light or a flash go off she blinks.
Excellent. I've been an Atomic history buff for a long time. I've been to both the Trinity marker at the White Sands Missile Range, and the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. :alright

Happy Whew!-They-Didn't-Ignite-The-Atmosphere Day!!
:rofl

Too much nitrogen for that. :stickoutt


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Too much nitrogen for that. :stickoutt
Yeah. We know that now and they were pretty much certain it wouldn't happen, but how often do you get a bunch of scientists together and you've got a switch to flip that they're "almost certain" won't destroy the earth ... "Where's the 'Kaboom'? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering 'Kaboom'!"

Two words: Castle Bravo

When you read the details about that time in history and the experiments, it makes the most wildly irresponsible crap our government does today look like the institutional equivalent of doing 80 in a 55.

When you read the details about that time in history and the experiments, it makes the most wildly irresponsible crap our government does today look like the institutional equivalent of doing 80 in a 55.
The remove of history is quite comfortable, but there's one catch: Context.

The Soviets were doing the same things (or worse), and from their words, actions, and motives, we had every reason to think that if we didn't keep up or advance further, we'd be at a distinct and highly threatening disadvantage. The question it all boils down to is, would you have preferred we lost the Cold War, or won it?

Make no mistake, I'm not giving a hearty thumbs-up to everything that was done, but there were reasons of the times too many people have conveniently forgotten.

Anyway... The Big Genie is out of the bottle now. So be it.


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No arguments on the context. Every time a hippie says we should be criminals for developing atomic bombs, I remind him that others were in the race too. We just finished first.

Even in context, the era of atomic research along with the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs is a fascinating history to study not only for what was done, but what cautions were willfully thrown out, both on the spur of the moment and by premeditated choice, because of our race with the Soviets.

No arguments on the context. Every time a hippie says we should be criminals for developing atomic bombs, I remind him that others were in the race too. We just finished first.
And a good thing we did, too.

Even in context, the era of atomic research along with the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs is a fascinating history to study not only for what was done, but what cautions were willfully thrown out, both on the spur of the moment and by premeditated choice, because of our race with the Soviets.
Indeed, indeed. Even some of the things that now, we look at and say, "Well, yeah!" like the pure-oxygen saturation of the Apollo One capsule that led to those deaths. :banghead:

Very interesting times, to be sure.

Not to say that "The Bomb" ain't important...but you guys are missing the big picture...

On this day in 1439, Kissing was banned in England.


Hello!!!! Do you understand the magnitude of this???






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Nor am I saying that the space program was not facinating. My dad was on the IBM team that put the computer systems aboard the Gemini capsules.

On this day in 1439, Kissing was banned in England.

Hello!!!! Do you understand the magnitude of this???
Yes.

British dentristry apparently hasn't improved in the last 500+ years. :eyecrazy:help




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Yes.

British dentristry apparently hasn't improved in the last 500+ years. :eyecrazy:help




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